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Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in Geography

Follow-up Master's degree in full-time form. The language of instruction is Czech.

The programme can be studied only in combination with another programme.

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What will you learn?

The objectives of this course are to provide students with integrated knowledge and skills based on the geography field and transformed into a teaching subject through didactics, with the support of pedagogical and psychological disciplines and current research findings. This course further shapes and develops the skills of reflection regarding the teaching process in the appropriate types and levels of schools. It also supports the skill of self-reflection in the teacher's role and acceptance of the moral obligations and teaching ethics. This leads to the preparation of primary and lower secondary school teachers in general educational field of Geography (usually with a combination of another discipline) as a part of the educational area People and Nature overlapping into the educational area People and Society as it is defined in the Framework Educational Programme for Elementary Education.

“Geography helps you to find your place in life.”

Through studying for the Master’s degree graduates gain the necessary competences that allow them to critically apply the use of their pedagogical and psychological knowledge in practice as a teacher at a primary or secondary school. Graduates are fully qualified to pursue the profession of a teacher. They are ready to base their professional conduct on well-structured knowledge and skills from their fields of approbation (content knowledge). The effectiveness of their professional conduct is conditioned by their subject-didactic (pedagogical content knowledge) and broader pedagogical and psychological knowledge and skills (knowledge of the broader background of education, knowledge of educational practices, knowledge about people involved in education, etc.).

The degree develops students’ analytical and comparative skills, which enable them to understand the diverse pedagogical reality and to use subject-specific, pedagogical, and psychological publications in their work for planning, implementing and reflecting on educational activities. They develop communication skills important for communication and collaboration with pupils/clients, colleagues in the workplace, with parents of pupils/clients and with practitioners. An important benefit of the degree is the development of self-reflective skills that provide space for the development of attitudes towards one another, to educated individuals and to the profession: perception of the responsibility of the teaching profession, the acceptance of the moral obligations of a helping profession and its ethics.

The studies emphasise the principle of interdisciplinarity (interconnection of some pedagogical and psychological subjects) and the principle of sequence and gradation of themes and courses, from the more general to the more specific. The concept is also characterized by the interdependence of theory and practice. An important part of the concept is the reflective teaching practice. The principles of reflection on teaching practice and self-reflection are related both to practice and to other experience-oriented subjects. An important part of the concept is also the promotion of inclusion, which is perceived as a cross-curricular theme (also supported by a separate course).

Practical training

The teaching practice is conceived as a coherent and gradated system with an emphasis on interconnection with theory and reflection and self-reflection of the student as a teacher.

The aim of the teaching practice is to acquire the professional competences necessary in the daily work of the teacher, to become acquainted with the roles which the teacher enters into in their work, to realize their own professional needs and to gradually take responsibility for the planning, implementation and evaluation of lessons. Throughout the teaching practice, students get a real idea of what a teacher's everyday work involves.

The teaching practice forms a coherent system of consecutive subjects. In the follow-up master's programmes, these are the subjects Teaching Practice 1 (1st semester), Teaching Practice 2 (2nd semester) and Teaching Practice 3 (3rd semester). In total, this makes up 280 hours (double-subject programme), followed by Seminar on Teaching Practice. Students enrol in the Seminar on Teaching Practice 1 twice during their studies (in the first and second semesters). The aim of the reflection is to provide students with a space for sharing and reflecting on experiences from their own teaching practice and helping them to deepen their reflective and self-reflective skills.

The system of teaching practice is regularly evaluated both through open and closed questions, both by students and the mentor teachers. The reflective seminars are also evaluated.

Further information

http://www.ped.muni.cz/katedry-a-instituty

Career opportunities

The Master's degree students are trained under the programme of Primary and Lower Secondary School Teaching, or Secondary School Teaching, usually with a combination of two disciplines (e.g. Geography Teaching and Maths Teaching). Through studying the Master's programme, graduates gain the necessary competence which enables them, in accordance with Act no. 563/2004 Coll., on teachers, to work as teachers. Moreover, the graduates are qualified to work in extracurricular institutions. They are ready to establish their professional behaviour based on well-structured knowledge and skills in their disciplines.

Admission requirements

No information available

Minimum score and numbers of accepted applicants in past years

Study options

Combined studies

Combinations with programmes from Faculty of Education

Combinations with programmes from Faculty of Sports Studies

Courses – curriculum examples

An example of your study plan:

Combined studies

Combinations with programmes from Faculty of Education

Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in Geography, full-time studies
 + Lower Secondary School English Language Teacher Training – Faculty of Education
Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in Geography, full-time studies
 + Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in Chemistry – Faculty of Education
Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in Geography, full-time studies
 + Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in Civics – Faculty of Education
Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in Geography, full-time studies
 + Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in Czech Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in Geography, full-time studies
 + Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in French Language – Faculty of Education
Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in Geography, full-time studies
 + Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in German Language – Faculty of Education
Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in Geography, full-time studies
 + Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in Health Education – Faculty of Education
Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in Geography, full-time studies
 + Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in History – Faculty of Education
Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in Geography, full-time studies
 + Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in Mathematics – Faculty of Education
Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in Geography, full-time studies
 + Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in Natural Science – Faculty of Education
Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in Geography, full-time studies
 + Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in Physics – Faculty of Education
Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in Geography, full-time studies
 + Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in Russian Language – Faculty of Education
Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in Geography, full-time studies
 + Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in Technology and IT Education – Faculty of Education
Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in Geography, full-time studies
 + Secondary School Teacher Training in Arts and Visual Creative Works – Faculty of Education
Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in Geography, full-time studies
 + Secondary School Teacher Training in Music – Faculty of Education

Bold – required courses
Normal – selective courses

Detailed information about courses in the study plan Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in Geography
Detailed information about courses in the study plan Secondary School Teacher Training in Music
Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in Geography, full-time studies
 + Secondary School Teacher Training in Special Education – Faculty of Education

Follow-up studies

Graduates of the Master's degree programme may continue in the doctoral programme Specialization in Education, Geography Didactics.

Study information

Provided by Faculty of Education
Type of studies Follow-up master's
Mode full-time Yes
combined No
distance No
Study options single-subject studies No
single-subject studies with specialization No
major/minor studies Yes
Standard length of studies 2 years
Language of instruction Czech

Do you have any questions?
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RNDr. Hana Svobodová, Ph.D.

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